What I Love About You #156

Your intensity. Your severe green eyes, your vivid auburn hair, your jolting personality. You.

P.S. Please reply to this message. You will get a special surprise if you do.

This had never happened before. This had been delivered by owl. She read the post script again, and pulled out a fresh piece of parchment. Dipping her quill in her special, violet ink, she wrote:

Dear Mystery Man,

Thank you for all of the messages you have been sending me. I have truly enjoyed receiving them. I keep them all posted on the inside of my bed hangings, and read each one before I go to sleep. You really are something special. However, you send me so many notes, and for a long while I have wished to return the favor. I have decided that you must give me hints about yourself, and I will try to figure you out. Well, you don't have to, but like What I Love About You # 89,I do love a mystery. I will send you letter everyday too, because I have determined no matter who you are, that I am deeply and irreversibly in love with you. I can't wait to see what my surprise is!!!

Love,

Lily

What I Love About You #147

Your belief in me. Here is your special surprise. Like you said, What I Love About You #89.

Lily read this note with excitement. She couldn't see a special surprise. But then she remembered what #89 was. A mystery! There must be a trigger! He was, of course, right. She kissed the note, deciding to unfold the mystery later. Suddenly, after a few sparkles materialized, a single, red rose with no thorns dropped in her hand. She gasped. "Eureka!" she thought. Then she noticed another piece of parchment on the ground.

What I Love About You #1

That you really do love me.

Dear Lily,

Yes, I am going to write you an actual letter. I know, I know, I am not following my typical format, but, WOW! You honestly blew me away yesterday. I wasn't sure if you loved me. I of course knew that you liked me, (I always watch your excitement when you find your notes) but I never thought you actually loved me. Especially if you knew who I was. I hope you stick with your word when you say "irreversible"! But, like I mentioned in #126, "you are steadfast and true to your word". In compliance to your want for clues, I enclose this.

Love,

Your Mystery Man

P.S. I love that name, by the way.

Lily read this over, and read the slip of parchment that was enclosed.

My name starts with S upside down.

Lily mulled this over confusedly. Did he mean an upside down S? But that is still an S! Maybe he meant if you turned the paper with his name upside down, meaning the last letter is S. That would make more sense. Yes, she would write him back and see if that was correct.

Dear Mystery Man,

I think I have deciphered your clue. Does it mean that your name ends with an S? I hope so, because the only other idea that is plausible is stupid and pointless!!!!

Love,

Lily